How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1948 / Active

John Tuohy

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

John Tuohy is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1948 · 78 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tuohy authored 150 published opinions for the court (1948–1985), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Walters v. Walters (59 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 119 of these were attributed to Tuohy by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1950	Walters v. Walters	94 N.E.2d 726	59
1953	Signa v. Alluri	113 N.E.2d 475	57
1951	Adams v. Silfen	96 N.E.2d 628	27
1952	Behles v. Chicago Transit Authority	104 N.E.2d 635	25
1952	Aldridge v. Fox	108 N.E.2d 139	21
1950	Eldridge v. Don Beachcomber, Inc.	95 N.E.2d 512	19
1949	Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Kellogg†	338 Ill. App. 618	19
1954	Dart Transit Co., Inc. v. Wiggins	117 N.E.2d 314	18
1950	Reinmueller v. Chicago Motor Coach Co.	93 N.E.2d 120	18
1952	Fenberg v. Rosenthal	109 N.E.2d 402	14
1954	Wade v. Ravenswood Hospital Ass'n†	120 N.E.2d 345	13
1953	Hayes v. Marshall Field & Co.	115 N.E.2d 99	13
1952	Northern Trust Co. v. Essaness Theatres Corp.	108 N.E.2d 493	12
1948	Wagner v. Sulk†	336 Ill. App. 101	12
1950	Albert v. Albert	92 N.E.2d 491	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 154 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is John Tuohy on?: John Tuohy is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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78 years on the Appellate Court of Illinois. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).